Sunday, January 27, 2013

Running through the cold dark days

As the whole east coast knows, this week has been an especially frigid one. Three things got me running in the cold this week:

(1) Jantastic
(2) The GW Birthday Classic 10k that D and I are running in less than a month, and
(3) Keeping up with D

((Comfort food also helps))

Tuesday night in the cold wasn't fun. Wednesday night was ugly. Thursday night I got myself out the door by putting on a gazillion layers, then felt sick after the first mile because I was so darn overheated. I still haven't mastered the right clothing to temperature ratio, but at least on Friday I wasn't slowing down to keep from burning up.

Or healthy ones anyway!

My goal for Saturday was to go to pilates, then to take my long run on Sunday. In fact, I made it to pilates just in time on Saturday.. then realized I didn't bring my yoga pants (jeans aren't exactly Fuse appropriate). Net result- today was a little brutal with a 10 miler and pilates, but I'm still walking (no promises on tomorrow!).

I'm so grateful that D and I don't have a scheduled run tomorrow. I'll run in the dark, I'll run in the cold, I'll run in the snow, and I'll run in a mix of all three, but I refuse to run in all of that PLUS cold rain. Gotta drawn the line somewhere!

PS- D- Love the running store/library/candy store locale. When are we going?? :0)